Girl with a Pearl Earring

Set in 17th century Holland Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer’s greatest and most enigmatic paintings.

Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a tilemaker’s daughter, is forced by tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Colin Firth). Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for helping in his studio, where she finds herself drawn to the man and his world of color and light. As she becomes part of his work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within his ordered household and beyond, fuelling a scandal which threatens to ruin them all.

Directed by
Peter Webber

Cast
Colin Firth - Johannes Vermeer
Scarlett Johansson - Griet
Tom Wilkinson - Van Ruijven
Judy Parfitt - Maria Thins
Cillian Murphy - Pieter
Essie Davis - Catharina
Joanna Scanlan - Tanneke
Alakina Mann - Cornelia

Production Co.
Delux Productions
Pathe International
U.K. Film Council
Archer Street Productions

Produced by
Francois Ivernel
Cameron McCracken
Duncan Reid

Studio
Lionsgate

Writer
Tracy Chevalier
Olivia Hetreed

Music
Alexandre Desplat